The Objects That Immigrants Packed Tell a Story About What It Meant to Leave Home Forever
A new collection co-edited by NYU scholar Kevin Kenny explores the things Irish and Italians carried with them to the New World during historic waves of migration
"The Objects That Immigrants Packed Tell a Story About What It Meant to Leave Home Forever." @irpinaingiro.bsky.social @hidehirota.bsky.social @grainnemcevoy.bsky.social @ciantmcmahon.bsky.social @josephsciorra.bsky.social @tedsmyth.bsky.social @nyupress.bsky.social ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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14.10.2025 22:07 — 👍 22 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 3
I’ve always liked “stray” but yes, “feral” definitely works too.
You’re like that sneaky tomcat that keeps all of the local house cats up late, laughing after dark, long after the humans have gone to bed.
09.10.2025 16:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I am looking forward to digging into this one soon… debut novel by trained historian and worldly raconteur @mylesdungan.bsky.social
Congrats, Myles!!
07.10.2025 00:34 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Henderson, Nevada, 5:16pm
06.10.2025 00:16 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Really looking forward to this! Registration details below 👇🏽
29.09.2025 19:36 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Yep, corner of University Place and Waverly Place.
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What a fun night! Thanks to our fantastic hosts at @gihnyu.bsky.social
26.09.2025 00:39 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by Glucksman Ireland House NYU
Launch of Rituals of Migration: Italians and Irish on the Move
Video of our launch of Rituals of Migration @gihnyu.bsky.social @nyupress.bsky.social is now up on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Qh1...
@irpinaingiro.bsky.social @hidehirota.bsky.social @grainnemcevoy.bsky.social @ciantmcmahon.bsky.social @josephsciorra.bsky.social @appalachianphilly.bsky.social
25.09.2025 18:03 — 👍 20 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 3
Manhattan, New York, 6:18pm
18.09.2025 22:19 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Really excited to be here for the event. Have decamped to the Bobst Library Special Collection in anxious anticipation.
16.09.2025 00:02 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Looking forward to launching "Rituals of Migration" @nyupress.bsky.social @gihnyu.bsky.social Sept 19, 7pm w/ @irpinaingiro.bsky.social @hidehirota.bsky.social @grainnemcevoy.bsky.social @ciantmcmahon.bsky.social @unlawfulentries.bsky.social @tedsmyth.bsky.social @josephsciorra.bsky.social &co. 🎉🎉🎉
15.09.2025 21:42 — 👍 24 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 4
Our Irish Studies Seminar programme for the autumn is now available - all events will be in hybrid format and everyone is welcome. For more info and registration: www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...
05.09.2025 11:10 — 👍 27 🔁 22 💬 0 📌 1
Looking for members help. Dr Maria Luddy and Dr Judith Harford are writing a book on the experiences of Irish women national school teachers, 1890-1950. They would love to hear from anyone with material such as diaries, letters, photographs, or other artefacts. email judith.harford@ucd.ie.
28.08.2025 14:53 — 👍 24 🔁 33 💬 1 📌 2
Book cover showing an Italian family preparing to leave and an Irish family reading an emigrant letter, with a 30 percent discount code: NYUAU30
🗃️"Rituals of Migration: Italians and Irish on the Move" edited by @kevinkenny.bsky.social and @irpinaingiro.bsky.social nyupress.org/978147982513...
The official publication date is June 17 but you can order the book now from @nyupress.bsky.social
@gihnyu.bsky.social @tedsmyth.bsky.social 🧵2
15.05.2025 13:04 — 👍 10 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
Immigration and Ethnic History Society
Did you know that the Immigration and Ethnic History Society has a YouTube channel?
Consider following us on there as we have videos of our past programs.
www.youtube.com/@iehs_org?ap...
12.08.2025 20:33 — 👍 12 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by Immigration and Ethnic History Society
Stacy Fahrenthold, Unmentionables: Textiles, Garment Work, and the Syrian American Working Class
Check out this book talk with Immigration and Ethnic History Society Board Member @sfahrenthold.bsky.social:
youtu.be/-UJHOuqFPvg?...
12.08.2025 20:31 — 👍 9 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
The annals are in separate volumes in Dublin, in three separate libraries: @ria.ie, @tcddublin.bsky.social, @ucdlibrary.bsky.social.
The UCD volume ends with the year 1169.
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10.08.2025 17:15 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
The signatories are:
Mícheál Ó Cléirigh
Cú Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh
Fearfeasa Ó Maoilchonaire
Cú Choigcríche Ó Duibhgeannáin
Conaire Ó Cléirigh
Muiris Ó Maoilchonaire
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10.08.2025 17:15 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
The Annals of the Four Masters were completed and signed #OTD 1636.
This is the signature page (UCD-OFM Ms A13).
The Annals are a chronicle of Irish history from AM 2242 to AD 1616. They were written, in Irish, between 22 January 1632 and 10 August 1636.
www.isos.dias.ie
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10.08.2025 17:15 — 👍 13 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 2
Really looking forward to this event next week! I can’t wait to learn from @emilymitchelleaton.bsky.social and @omarvaleriojimenez.bsky.social. This promises to be another great @iehs.bsky.social online book event! Registration details 👇🏽
05.08.2025 19:13 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
***History grad students***
Check out the opportunity below:
05.08.2025 21:43 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
@costelkh.bsky.social and I were delighted to see our @routledgehistory.bsky.social @routledgebooks.bsky.social History of Irish America warmly reviewed by Bill Mulligan in the latest issue of the Irish Literary Supplement!
05.08.2025 20:45 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
We treat Channel crossings today as exceptional, and the RNLI is called a "migrant taxi service." However, people have long sought refuge across the Channel. On this day in 1939, two German refugees were rescued in the Channel by the RNLI and brought to safety in the UK.
29.07.2025 07:49 — 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
***Save the Date!***
The IEHS Graduate and Early Career Affairs Committee is excited to hold the next virtual mentorship event on Thursday, October 2 from 5:00PM to 6:15PM EST. The event is open to graduate students, early career historians, and independent scholars.
Stay tuned!
23.07.2025 15:18 — 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Abstract. During the nineteenth century female Irish religious orders
established missions across the Irish diaspora which were designed
with flexibility and adaptation in mind. The Sisters of Mercy’s personal letter networks allowed these women, who were often very
young, to continue their religious and technical “apprenticeship” while
abroad. These letters enabled women in the diaspora to maintain a
sense of consistency and belonging across the oceans: with their sisters
in Ireland and elsewhere in the world on an ethnic and institutional
level. Engaging with these letters as both intimate conversations and
professional reflections presents opportunities for investigating how
long-distance institutional memory was developed and a continuing
connection to Ireland and Irishness maintained. This article moves
the focus of ethnic culture brokers from the priest and bishop to the
formal and informal networks of women religious who worked within a
system designed for men. In doing so, it demonstrates that these letters
provided an important extra layer to public global Irish networks, a
layer which acted as both a whisper network and an opportunity for
reflection on efficient methods for varied work in large, fluctuating,
and cross-class ethnic communities
Very happy that 'Blue Sunglasses and New Habits: Female Correspondence Networks and the Irish Religious Diaspora' is now out as part of a great double issue
@iehs.bsky.social Journal of American Ethnic History ed. by Cian McMahon & Darragh Gannon
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24.10.2024 10:00 — 👍 35 🔁 11 💬 3 📌 0
Spot on!
Ferriter reminds us that the people burning immigrants in effigy last week are descendants of those who fled Ulster with hopes for better lives in the mid-eighteenth century.
18.07.2025 09:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
George E. Pozzetta Dissertation Award
Visit the post for more.
***Graduate students studying migration and/or ethnic history***
Apply to the Pozzetta Dissertation Award! IEHS invites submissions for two awards of $3,500 each (up from $1,000) to help graduate students with their dissertations.
More information is available here:
iehs.org/awards/georg...
02.07.2025 19:42 — 👍 14 🔁 22 💬 1 📌 1
PhD candidate, Ulster University
researching the life & work of Dr Francis Moylan, RC Bishop of Kerry & Cork, 1735-1815
Views mine, not my employer's (obviously). Historian of liberalism, populism, the Democratic Party, and the Midwest: http://coryhaala.org
British Empire Professor, University of Sussex. Co-editor, MUP Studies in Imperialism series. Views here own.
Blogs on politics of colonial history here: https://alanlester.co.uk Editor https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/the-truth-about-empire/
Gaeilge meirgeach ach fonn orm í a fheabhsú.
Author, journalist, professor of history and political science. Historian of Irish America, New York and New Jersey. Sherlockian. Golfer determined to get better before he gets worse. Rutgers Ph.D.
ethnographer folklorist cultural historian: material culture*italian diaspora*religious studies. presepe builder. director of Academic & Cultural Programs at Calandra Institute, a CUNY-wide research institute
Research institute dedicated to the study and understanding of Irish culture — in Ireland and around the world. Part of the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame.
@keoughglobalnd.bsky.social
@notredame.bsky.social
Historian of slavery and abolition. Author of The Last Slave Ships: NYC & The End of The Middle Passage (Yale, 2020). Working on a new book Spying on The Slave Trade 🕵️. Rep’d by Deirdre Mullane
N. Ireland - U.S.
https://www.johnaeharris.com/
Global tax politics, economic sociology, political economy, equality. Department of Sociology, Maynooth University, Ireland
Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin
Cultural and social history of early modern England and Ireland
https://voicesproject.ie/
┃Queen's University Belfast, Institute of Irish Studies
┃Public Diplomacy
┃Markievicz Award Winner, Arts Council of Ireland https://www.gov.ie/en/press-release/46faa-film-music-theatre-and-traditional-arts-represented-among-markievicz-award-2023-recipients
Conversation for the Global Irish Nation on all major podcast platforms and at irishstewpodcast.com.
#IrishPodcast #IrishDiaspora #DiasporaMatters #GlobalIrishNation
Library Assistant @ UCD Special Collections / National Folklore Collection. Books. Archaeology. Crafts. Cats.
Not necessarily in that order. She/her.
Clinical Assistant Professor | Purdue University | Irish Diaspora | Eighteenth Century | United Irishmen | British imperialism
History isn’t reality, it’s methodology.
Historian. Husband. Iowan. Pittsburgh 🏳️🌈🐕🪕⚾️ Wrote a book long ago. Writing another on the Métis Rez in Nebraska. Most useful thing I’ve done is probably https://commonplace.online/article/how-to-read-a-book/
Postdoctoral Fellow at the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, University of Notre Dame. Historian of Immigration, Race and Nationalism in 19th Century USA, and Irish-American political views on 19th Century imperialism and anti-slavery
Professor of modern European history at Idaho State University. Author of “Enduring Ruin.”
An authoritative reference work of nearly 11,000 lives for scholars of Irish history, society and culture from the Royal Irish Academy
Professor of English in MA, Feminist modernist, Irish literature enthusiast. Moonlights in childcare and eldercare.
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/body-politics-in-contemporary-irish-womens-fiction-9781350429109/